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GIs fire on taxi, wound 3 Afghan soldiers

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — U.S. soldiers opened fire on a taxi Thursday at a checkpoint in Kabul, wounding three officers of Afghanistan's fledgling national army.

The embarrassing incident came a day after America's top soldier, Gen. Richard Myers, visited Afghanistan and said the security situation was improving.

On Tuesday, Taliban guerrillas killed a Muslim cleric from a pro-government council in the south of the country. On Wednesday, the U.S.-led coalition hunting remnants of the ousted Taliban regime and Al Qaeda said it had killed at least three suspected Taliban fighters near a U.S. base in the east of the country.

Thursday's shooting in Kabul came on the same road about two months after a suicide bomber in a taxi killed himself and five others, four of them German peacekeepers.

Mousa Khan, the taxi driver in Thursday's incident, said troops gave him no warning as he neared the checkpoint.